SCIENCE & SOCIETY

_ 60 years later, has the discovery of Francis Crick and James Watson really had the transformative impact that the world expected? By Donna Dickenson LONDON - On April 25, 1953, Francis Crick and James Watson published a one-page paper that many ...

NEW YORK, April 11 (Xinhua) -- The Nobel medal awarded to British Francis Crick in 1962 for his discovery of DNA was sold here Thursday at an auction for more than 2 million U.S. dollars. Crick won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine along ...

Sixty years ago Cambridge scientists Francis Crick and James Watson showed the world their discovery of the structure of DNA - the building blocks of all life on Earth. Now a there's a new memorial in Cambridge to Francis Crick, who died in 2004. It ...

, Francis Crick and James Watson published their discovery of the double helix structure of the DNA molecule that is the basis of all living structures. DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) was first isolated by the Swiss physician Friedrich Miescher in ...

Next Thursday will mark 60 years since Francis Crick and James Watson unveiled the structure of DNA. They published a double-helix genetic code of life in their paper. Experts have high hopes that the breakthrough knowledge of DNA will enable the ...

Yesterday marked sixty years since James Watson and Francis Crick published their groundbreaking paper describing the chemical structure of the DNA molecule and explaining how it could form the self-replicating core of living cells. Watson, who went ...

A memorial to Francis Crick has been unveiled at his former college at the University of Cambridge to mark the 60th anniversary of the publication of the structure of DNA. A tribute relief in the archway of the Great Gate at Gonville and Caius was ...

As the world gears up to celebrate DNA Day on Thursday -- the anniversary of the publication of scholarly papers that explained the structure of the molecule -- the letters of Francis Crick, one of the scientists involved in the work, are in the ...

CNBC Reporter & Editor Source: Christie's Francis Crick DNA letter sets $5.3m auction record. For most investors, the big news this week was the S&P index reaching new highs. But there were two more obscure headlines that actually tell us much more ...